Cooking Articles

Earth Day Eats

One of my coworkers refers to me as the “hippie” of the office, mostly because I am from California and eat strange things like tofu and bok choy. I do eat healthy (although I don’t think that qualifies...

Superfoods in the Slow Cooker

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of talk in the news about foods that can help you live a longer, healthier life. These foods have come to be known as “superfoods,” and include a variety...

A Carbonara Fit For Spring

I get a little excited about spring vegetables. Happens every year. The first artichokes, asparagus, and peas (not to mention ramps, fiddlehead ferns, spring onions) appear and I go overboard with spring...

Homemade, Better Than From The Box Snacks

One of the main themes of Earth Day, a global holiday honoring our planet, is to conserve ecological resources for future generations. It’s a good chance to think about the various ways you can lead...

Best Meal Memories

Mexico, mangoes, margaritas, mariachis. What do these words have in common? They are all ingredients that went into making one of the top five favorite meals of my life. Attempting to name the best...

The Word Is Teatime--With Lemon Scones

The word is in. Kids are quite influential when it comes to where the grocery money goes. According to a recent Just Kid Inc.’s FUNdamentals study, “most kids between the ages of two and 12 want...

Cooking Origami

What do boy scouts and fine cooks have in common? They both employ a method of folding meals into packets with delicious results. The boy scouts have their simple foil pouch cooking, while French and Italian...

Competent Cooking School

There are so many different ways to cook. It is essential to learn and understand the basics in order to be a competent cook, which will make cooking efficient and fun. There are six key methods of cooking...

Vinegar, Vincotto, and Verjus: Part Three, Verjus

Verjus, sometimes called verjuice, has been around since medieval times. The word means “green juice.” It is the unfermented juice of semi-ripe grapes. Some say verjus got its start when vineyard owners...

The Freezer Is Your Friend

This past week a colleague and I spent a car ride discussing our cooking habits, in particular how she goes about getting dinner on the table each night as a working mother. That she uses the internet...

Haud Up Yer Heid Like a Thistle: A Scotch Primer

I am a bit of an amateur Scotch enthusiast. I developed a taste for it while I was concocting the recipe for my brownies. I generally enjoy my Scotch at home, as going to whisky bars is a rather expensive...

Duck Fat: Better Than Butter

Years from now, long after I have stopped working for my present employer, if my boss remembers one thing about me it will be these four words: duck fat French fries. Our first full day working together,...

Crockpot Spring Cleaning Challenge

Do you stockpile endless varieties of canned and frozen foods during the winter? What about those random gourmet items gathering dust at the back of your pantry? Spring is the time to clean up and clear...

Cooking From The Cupboard

We’ve all been there: it’s a Wednesday night and you don’t get home until 9:30pm from the gym, a charity meeting, PTA, fill in the blank. All you know is McDonald’s is not looking like the healthiest...

First You Shake It, Then You Bake It

It was just a typical Wednesday evening in my household getting ready for dinner, cooking with my boys. I have had to improvise to get any cooking done lately, though, since my newborn pretty much flat...

Don't Look Now: Cucumber Snack Crunch

I just love it when kids get good ideas in the kitchen. Recently we were putting some groceries away when a light bulb moment struck daughter. I had just been to our nearest discount grocery store -...